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The Climate industrial Complex eclipses everything because its power,resources(the control of virtually EVERYTHING),money on a global scale that not even multi nationals have at the money.
Financial Industrial Complex.
Rolling blackouts,farmers screwed, man made ditches called protected water ways.
All anyone has to do is take a good look at California to see how bad environmentalism is.
At the expense of the people.
I was flabergasted when I learned that grid tied solar needs the GRID to even work.
When there is a power outage, such as when the utility company has to do repairs on certain power lines, you cannot receive electricity from either the grid or your solar panel system.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: neo96
Rolling blackouts,farmers screwed, man made ditches called protected water ways.
All anyone has to do is take a good look at California to see how bad environmentalism is.
At the expense of the people.
It would be hard for me to argue that, because California has proved government lead "altruism" doesn't benefit the people whenever it's forced.
One day when we have a truly free market in relation to energy, and clean renewables become cheaper... I think we'll be in good shape to have a cleaner environment. Anyone's position on climate change is really moot of it's cheaper for clean energy.
But someone has pointed out to me before that we need to change battery technology before it's beneficial truly.... Lithium extraction and disposal is not ideal.
The new technology not only triples the energy density of lithium-ion, it also recharges in minutes, survives thousands charging cycles, operates across a wide range of temperatures (-4˚ F to 140˚ F), and won’t catch fire. With a little more development, Goodenough, a professor of engineering at the University of Texas, thinks they could reliably replace lithium with sodium, an abundant element that’s in everything from underground seams of salt to nearly ubiquitous ocean water.
originally posted by: neo96
Ah, yes
a reply to: LogicalGraphitti
I want a Mr. Fusion like in Back to the Future.
Hope I live that long.
originally posted by: Raggedyman
Floating islands of rubbish, rivers polluted till they are biologically dead, destruction of the environment,
originally posted by: LogicalGraphitti
The next battery technology is the "glass battery". I hope I'm around to see it in the mainstream.
PBS article:
The new technology not only triples the energy density of lithium-ion, it also recharges in minutes, survives thousands charging cycles, operates across a wide range of temperatures (-4˚ F to 140˚ F), and won’t catch fire. With a little more development, Goodenough, a professor of engineering at the University of Texas, thinks they could reliably replace lithium with sodium, an abundant element that’s in everything from underground seams of salt to nearly ubiquitous ocean water.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
I want to thank the posters that have illustrated that actions are taking place or plans are being made that don't necessitate a rise in taxes or a loss of freedoms and liberties.
I humbly stand corrected.
It appears that taxes need not be raised or draconian measures taken after all!
This is good news!
originally posted by: LABTECH767
I would disagree as it is a related field of study, much of mankind's impact on the climate is down to pollution, artificial gases such as CFC's for example are pollution and they have adversely affected the make up of the climate breaking down Ozone for example AND they are also insulators so as they have affected the climate, and as our waste dump's over time also release gases into the atmosphere the subject is not really that separate, in fact they are intertwined.
My argument was that most climate change is actually natural and mankind has only affected it slightly, the claim we are the sole cause of climate change is in my opinion utterly wrong and the scare mongering extremists that want to cull humanity are every bit as bad and evil as pol pot, hitler, mao and stalin in my eye's.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
I want to thank the posters that have illustrated that actions are taking place or plans are being made that don't necessitate a rise in taxes or a loss of freedoms and liberties.
I humbly stand corrected.
It appears that taxes need not be raised or draconian measures taken after all!
This is good news!
originally posted by: tanstaafl
originally posted by: Raggedyman
Floating islands of rubbish, rivers polluted till they are biologically dead, destruction of the environment,
Please don't conflate pollution with climate change.
I'm all for cleaning up pollution, and holding big corporations (or rather, big corporate Executives) accountable, not only to force them to clean up their messes, but also with respect to criminal liability.
But that has nothing whatsoever to do with 'climate change'.